Wall Design in the Living Room: Stylish Ideas & Tips

The living room is the central room of your home. It's where you spend cosy evenings with your family or friends. We'll give you some ideas and tips on how to decorate your living room walls to make this much-used space look its best. With a little colour, you can easily and stylishly transform your living room into a place full of cosiness.

Table of contents

1. Living room wall design: Ideas from our community
2. What wall designs are there for the living room? (incl. video)
3. Colouring living room walls - ideas for more cosiness
4. FAQ: Frequently asked questions about wall design in the living room

Living room wall design: Ideas from our community

What wall designs are available for the living room?

If you want to decorate your living room walls, you have a wide range of options. Of course, you can paint your living room in the classic way or decorate your walls with patterned wallpaper. But also unusual ideas, such as walls in concrete or stone look, can give your room a very special flair. No matter which design you choose, it should always match the rest of your interior and emphasise your own style.

Living Room Wall Design: Refresh with Colour

Painting is a really simple way to transform your living room walls. You can achieve a fantastic effect quickly and with minimal effort – whether you want to add more cosiness to the room with our wall paints in serene, pastel shades, or create a statement with a bright, bold colour.
If you opt for a subtle shade, feel free to paint the entire room. A light, soft Beige, or an off-White, will make small, dark rooms feel more spacious. Use expressive shades like Red or dark Blue more sparingly. Dark colours can quickly feel oppressive, so use them to highlight specific areas, for example, by painting only the wall behind your sofa.
A combination of complementary light and dark shades is also a great idea. For example, paint the lower part of your wall in a dark Green and the upper part in a matching lighter shade.
This way, you can bring all your living room painting ideas to life in no time! If you need a little help with your wall painting project, we have a guide and tips on painting walls for you.

Video: Testing 3 different painting techniques

Wall design with wood, stone or concrete look

An alternative to painting or wallpapering the living room is to cover the walls with wood or stone, e. g. behind your sofa. Wood panelling can have very different effects, depending on the style. Natural wood radiates warmth and spreads cosiness. In the classic country house style, half-height wall panelling in muted tones is very popular. Give your old wooden panels a new coat of paint - our guide to painting wooden ceilings and panelling shows you how to do it easily.
A living room wall design in stone look or natural stone gives you a noble and easy-to-clean surface. Combine clinker brick with metal shelves and concrete-look walls, for example, to give your living room an industrial style.
Concrete walls are very much in vogue and have long been much more than a cool, unfinished shell. In the next section you will find some tips on how to create concrete-look walls yourself.

Colouring living room walls - ideas for more cosiness

Colouring living room walls is the easiest way to significantly influence the atmosphere of a room alongside furnishings and decoration. Lovingly designing your walls creates a cosy atmosphere and expresses your very own style. A harmonious overall concept will help you to give your ideas for wall design in the living room a stylish framework.

The perfect shade for your living room walls

Of course, your personal taste is the main factor in **choosing the right colour** for your living room walls. However, your **furnishings**, **room size**, and ceiling height are also important considerations. Each shade has its own unique effect and can beautifully complement a particular interior style.

• Grey shades are an absolute classic – especially when combined with White, they always create a very elegant look.
• Blue and Green shades are usually cooler and fresher. When combined with White and Beige tones, they work wonderfully with a Nordic Skandi-Look.
• Beige and Earthy shades have a calming effect and pair beautifully with furniture in a Boho-style, for example, rattan or wood.
• Pink and Violet shades reflect a romantic style. Cosy armchairs with floral or striped patterns perfectly complement the baroque touch.
• Orange, Red, and Yellow can be effectively used as accent colours. They convey cheerfulness and joy.

Painting a living room wall in a concrete look

Modern wall design in the living room: Designing a living room wall in a concrete look is a real eye-catcher that many people want. If you would like to paint the TV wall in the living room in a concrete look, for example, there are special paints available in stores. These are usually applied in 2 coats with a palette knife to create the textured surface of the concrete. Other options include the use of mineral plasters or, of course, wallpaper with a concrete look. Thin exposed concrete panels are also available, which are applied to a wall like tiles, so-called rolled concrete.

A real eye-catcher: Accent wall with stucco

Walls with beautiful stucco ornaments are often found, especially in old buildings. If you want to give your living room wall this special, harmonious flair, you can achieve this very easily with stucco elements made of styrofoam.
For a living room wall design, decorate the transition between wall and ceiling with stucco strips, for example. This draws the eye upwards and visually raises low rooms. Or design your living room walls with square or rectangular elements (coffers). This way you achieve a structured but calming, elegant effect.
For a tone-in-tone wall design, first stick on the mouldings and then paint the entire wall uniformly. It looks particularly elegant if the mouldings contrast visually with the wall. First paint the stucco profiles in a light colour shade. Then apply them to your darker painted living room wall.

In our video you can see what you need to bear in mind when decorating your room with decorative mouldings:

FAQ: Frequently asked questions about wall design in the living room

If you haven't found what you are looking for in our article, we have compiled the most frequently asked questions for you here.